Tracking online conversations

I tried CoComment a while back and it was a pain. I can't remember why. Anyway someone - I thought it was Neville Hobson, although I can find no evidence of this - encouraged me to take another look.

It's become an important part of my blogging life in just a few weeks. What does it do? Tips me off when comments are made to particular blog posts, whether I'm participating in the conversation or not.

CoComment offers lots of other social goodies which I've not (yet) pursued with any diligence. Things like seeing who else tracks the same blog posts as you, a list of your comments you can stick in your own blog, a topic cloud for your own blog etc etc.

You don't have to have a blog to use CoComment. FireFox is a neat plug-in (it's what I use) and other browsers use bookmarklets.

Whatever it was that bugged me before, doesn't any more. A little red envelope appears in the bottom right corner of my (FireFox) browser whenever a new comment is made.

Comments

[Stephen Davies]

I tried it a while ago and, like you, lost interest straight away. But, I've just installed the Firefox extension and we'll see how it goes.

This is my first CoComment comment.

[David Tebbutt]

Well you'll be wanting a comment so you can see if it works. Here you go.